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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020